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6.—Les Salons de Paris. By Madame Ancelo...
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hours of your work at present woul said d be no more time than to time equal I to added three of ours will .
Does alter no claim , the that proportion to seem , fair work — ? ' that or Yes you , ' she r have time a . ri xcep g ' h From t t to because ask . But I require understand , ' compensation me , ' , I make for you
workfo your r we must all work if we , wish to live : and consider that if you do n m y t perform , your share of work we could not g t bu yo t b the thing nobo s y d require ht t
not out of anger , or for the sake of punishmen , ecause y oug " o live the child on ot felt her the peop justice le ' s work of . this ' Even and so at we this came early to an agreement , " continued that Mr she . Warren should ,
r w " ork t of for her us ti ever me y day to from be solel 7 to y , 9 at , from her own 12 to disposal 2 , and . " from 5 to 7 o ' clock . The
notable Mr . Frobel scheme cautiousl nor do y we refrain learn s from whether offering Mr . Warren any opinion considere of this d ;
himself entitled to compensation for the expenditure of labour individual during the " previous nor whether seven mamma years of had life any of special the juvenile claim _" for soverei loss gn of
time during ; her accouchement , to say nothing of trouble ; but , as we promised in MrFrobel ' s second volume a visit to the "
Settleare . ment of Modern Times" we may perhaps obtain information on ,
these points .
134 Notices Of Books:
134 NOTICES OF BOOKS :
6.—Les Salons De Paris. By Madame Ancelo...
6 . —Les Salons de Paris . By Madame Ancelot . Paris , 1858 .
The recalling scenes of pleasures long past is in most cases anything but an exhilarating processsuggesting thoughts of faded
, artificial flowersor of illumination lamps the morning after a gala , rather than of anything , that " smells sweet and blossoms in the
dust ; " and the general impression of these reminiscences of some of the most brilliant writers of what is , or rather was , considered
the most brilliant city in the world , is a somewhat saddening one . Madame Ancelot herself is no undistinguished member of the
circles whose memory she recalls , ' and her earliest recollections date from the salons of the . Restorationof which the glimpses she affords
is are at p best leasanter but a and mocking more shadowy genial th , repast an those to of which a later we date are . invited Still it ;
, be and i nc if li ned accep to thi n Madame k that few Ancelot of tho ' s se defin here ition desc ribed a Sal ar on e p rope shal rly l
entitled to the appellation . crowded assemblof le comin
"A salon" she tells us" is not a y peopg together to known dance to , to each , hear other music or , or who , to disp have lay some toilettes special ; but reason a meeting for desiring of those to be long so
ing known such ; whose bond habits of union , and tastes all are her congenial guests ; who that regard they converse the hostess freel as y form with
one another a without waiting among for an introduction , , since it would be impossible to suppose that any unworthy person could be admitted . "
Madame Ancelot admits , however , that the company meeting at the "Vicomte _d'Arlincourt ' s was too numerous and showy , and the tion
too little known to each , other , to be truly entitled to appella
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/62/
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